Therefore, I would suggest that the title of the Cornell news release "Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon", while technically correct, is rather misleading in that a casual reading would infer an "overestimate" rather larger than the couple percent implied by the study.

I don't think saying that the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, who also was the pastor of a 14,000-member megachurch, and one of TIME's 25 most influential evangelicals has influence one the vote of CC's is an "overestimate".

The literature on political heterogeneity within social networks suggests that people tend to overestimate the degree of political congruence among their friends: Robert Huckfeldt and John Sprague, Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Furthermore, when interpreting these numbers, we should keep in mind that members of majority groups have a tendency to overestimate the proportion of minorities in their surroundings a form of misperception that presumably applies to churches, therefore inflating the degree of diversity reported by congregants.36

Research has shown that we tend to overestimate what a portion size should be for high-carbohydrate foods, as compared to high-fat foods, and that, unfortunately, our portion sizes tend to correlate with our body mass index.